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I was trying to connect to MariaDB using Dbo:MySQL on which I was getting the error that it was unable to connect through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'. On going through my.cnf file I noticed that default location is /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock and hence the above error. Then in the constructor of Dbo::MySQL I specified this socket file particularly. Still it tried to use default socket file and not which I specified. When I looked into the code, I noticed that specified socket file is ignored and default is used. The code is as follows.

if(mysql_real_connect(impl*->mysql, dbhost*.c_str(), dbuser_.c_str(),

dbpasswd*.empty() ? 0 : dbpasswd*.c_str(),

dbname*.c_str(), dbport*,

//dbsocket_.c_str(),

"/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock",

CLIENT_FOUND_ROWS) != impl_->mysql){

std::string errtext = mysql_error(impl_->mysql);

mysql_close(impl_->mysql);

throw MySQLException(

std::string("MySQL : Failed to connect to database server: ")

• errtext);
  }
  }

Here dboscket.c_str() is commented and default location is hardcoded. Am curious to know the reason behind the same.

Regards,

Rajeev.